Germans in USA: What happened to them?

**Ruggery** · 09-21-2018, 03:40 AM

Currently in the United States the Amish, Mennonites and Mormons are the only americans completely ethnic German?

**Ruggery** · 09-21-2018, 03:49 AM

Originally Posted by Smitty

As others have said, they integrated well. I'm not of the opinion that German influence is as great as the number of German immigrants would suggest. It is there, but still less than British influence. The British were here first and had the greater role in the nation's founding. Germans came later and assimilated.

United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand of these 4 countries, the United States has the least British influence.

**~~KMack~~** · 09-21-2018, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by Ruggery

Currently in the United States the Amish, Mennonites and Mormons are the only americans completely ethnic German?

No there are plenty that can trace ancestry, on all sides, to Germany.

**Peterski** · 09-21-2018, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by KMack

No there are plenty that can trace ancestry, on all sides, to Germany.

I can trace 100% of my ancestry to Germany before year 1914 but I'm not ethnically German.

I wonder if Americans with similar ancestry like me identify as Polish or German Americans?

**Smitty** · 09-21-2018, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by Ruggery

United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand of these 4 countries, the United States has the least British influence.

Without a doubt. We've had the most non-British immigration and weren't a commonwealth nation.

**Smitty** · 09-21-2018, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Peterski

I can trace 100% of my ancestry to Germany before year 1914 but I'm not ethnically German.

I wonder if Americans with similar ancestry like me identify as Polish or German Americans?

Definitely Polish. Unless they were Germanized Poles.